Friday, July 31. 2009

Pete Galayda continues his work to re-paint the 972. Here he is installing the window guards on the nearly completed south side. He attracts a lot of help from other volunteers, finished paint is going on the north side, and work has started on the west end. LOOKS GOOD!

Thursday, July 2. 2009

Time for an update on progress on this popular car. Here Pete Galayda continues the painting of the south side. It is almost complete, west doors restored and re-hung. About time to think about re-applying the lettering, and move on to one of the ends of the car. As an anecdote, yesterday we had a weekday visitor wander into the area after he saw West Allis in one of the sign boxes. Turns out he lives in West Allis and was very excited and amazed at the car. He was still there and taking pics almost an hour later when I passed through!

Wednesday, May 6. 2009

A lot of work done since the last update despite the cold weather over the winter. John Faulhaber has moved to the north side, and is laboriously hand sanding the hundreds (thousands?) of rivets and surrounding surface.

Step Areas

The 972 has several "treadle" controlled doors and you can see the silver floor plate behind John Faulhaber in this picture. A passenger stepping here while the car is stopped, will feel that plate hinge lower and a moment later the door opens. These are real maintenance HEADACHES. Outside, in this pic, John is needlechipping the old paint and corrosion away.

Cream Color Band

Pete Galayda soldiers on painting the cream color band along the middle of the car. Losts of surfaces, window posts, corners and crevices here. This is the second finish coat.

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Jeron G. about Early February woodshop activiesSun, 03-01-2015 16:46That was sprayed on the cab while
at East Troy. The locomotive is
TE-1. It was built for Toledo
Edison, and worked there its entire
life until [...]

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the Electric Car dept will respond
to your question. I believe one
of the members wrote that on the
engine. It [...]

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you ever had conveyed your
interest to the team restoring the
plow? Not being involved but
knowing the members [...]

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ground, there could be some
premature painting and decals that
could go on the outside of the cab

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report shows the Electroliner and a
yellow steeple cab with a CNS&M
monogram and spray painted number
454. Could [...]

CGW RR fan about Early February woodshop activiesFri, 02-27-2015 12:17The UP sticker could be for a truck
trailer.
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the accuracy nut, the plow
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[...]

Nigel Bennett about Steam Department Update January 2015Fri, 02-27-2015 11:44Mike,
Yep. We always like to think she
may have been operated by Casey
...... but we will never be sure.
Nigel

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At this time we will not be
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1630 this year.
The issue is that, after not
running for a number of years, we
[...]

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you will be offering cab rides on
1630 this coming season. I
understand you did not offer any
last year, as it was [...]

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scroll ad for mother's day,is that
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mainline by the [...]